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Chapter 8Anatomy of an IPP Request

This chapter describes the low-level format of the Internet Printing Protocol, including how each value in a request or response is encoded and how the data is exchanged between the client and server.

Dissecting an IPP Request

Every IPP request is composed of the following parts:

• A HTTP request

• An IPP request message

• Optional additional (document) data

• A HTTP response

• An IPP response message

The following sections describe each of these parts.

The HTTP Request

The HTTP request is a POST request containing data of type application/ipp. Each POST contains a single IPP request message and potentially the document data for a Print-Job or Send-Document request. Figure 8.1 shows the data flow.

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